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Tag: Air Mail
1953 Bermuda Royal Visit November
Commemorating the visit of Queen Elizabeth II A special stamp adapted from the 6d White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon flavirostris Queen Elizabeth definitive marked “ROYAL VISIT 1953”. Date: 26th November 1953 Stamped Cachet: ER Royal Visit 1953 First Day Cover Stamp: QEII 6d White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon flavirostris Type: First Day Cover CDS: 26NOV53B ST.GEORGES BERMUDA Printed Cachet:…
1949 Perot Centenary Issue
Centenenary of the First Postage Stamp – The Perot Stamp Type: First Day Cover Stamped cachet: PEROT CENTENARY ISSUE / FIRST DAY COVER 11th APRIL 1949, BERMUDA Stamps: 2½d, 3d and 6d Perot Provisional and Easter Lilies THE PEROT STAMP CENTENARY OF FIRST POSTAGE STAMP CDS: 11APR49C ST. GEORGES BERMUDA Printed cachet: First Day Cover…
1945 Air Letter 6d Aerogramme
Air Mail stationery Air Letter stationery for use for international air mail. Higgins & Gage: F-G2 BY AIR MAIL AIR LETTER IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL Colour: Black on grey paper Stamp: Printed King George VI 6d
Registered Airmail 2/6 Key Plate on piece
KGVI 2/6 key plate Passed by Censor Type: Registered Airmail on Piece Date: March 13 1943 CDS: 13MAR43 HAMILTON BERMUDA and 3 PASSED BY CENSOR BERMUDA Registration: G. P. O.–HAMILTON BERMUDA 1031 Label: BY AIR MAIL PAR AVION Stamp: KGVI 2/6 Key Plate
1941 King George VI 7½d Pictorial Issue
New Seven Pence Half-Penny definitive Date: 18th December 1941 Stamp: King George VI BERMUDA 7½d Pictorial Issue featuring White-tailed Tropicbird, Arms of Bermuda and native flower Type: First Day Cover CDS: 18DEC41A HAMILTON BERMUDA Cachet: 7½d FIRST DAY COVER BERMUDA 18th DEC. 1941 featuring two clippers in purple Label: TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR MAIL VIA PAN AMERICAN…
1941 Censor Cover
Wartime censorship of letter Type: Censor Cover Date: 12th May 1941 CDS: 12MAY41B ST. GEORGES BERMUDA Hand Stamps: T BERMUDA and CENTIMES 150 (Tax markings) Censor Label: B.C.1. OPENED BY EXAMINER 449 Label: AIR MAIL Address: Mrs Annette Sandilli, 71 Huyler Street, Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.A. Stamps: King George VI definitive pictorials 1½d Ships in…
1939 Pan Am First Transatlantic Airmail Northern Route
First Transatlantic Airmail First acceptance of mail via New York – Southampton service (northern route). The Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper flew across the Atlantic on a route from Southampton to Port Washington, New York with enroute stops at Foynes, Ireland, Botwood, Newfoundland, and Shediac, New Brunswick. The inaugural trip flew on June 24th 1939. Pan…
1938 FAM 17 First Flight Baltimore to Bermuda
Commemorating the First Flight of FAM 17 The first offical mail flight from Baltimore to Hamilton designated FAM 17 was on 16th March 1938, when the magenta cachet “UNITED STATES AIR MAIL FIRST FLIGHT FAM 17 BALTIMORE – BERMUDA” featuring Bermuda map and aircraft silhouette between Easter Lillies was used. More about Airmail… Type: First…
1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight
Commemorating the first flight between Bermuda and New York Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways opened up a New York-Bermuda-London flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on…
1925 Second Special Flight of the Airship USS Los Angeles
Bermuda first overseas airmail Date: 22nd April 1925 CDS: Front – Blue and unclear. Cachet: Stamped – BERMUDA FIRST OVERSEAS AIRMAIL. Typed – By Air Mail by Air Ship Los Angeles from Bermuda to Lakehurst N. J. Address: Mr A. C. Roessler, 140 South Parkway, East Orange, N. J., U. S. A. Stamps: 2½d Ship…